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[edit] Use Ext3 instead of ReiserFS

ReiserFS is a bad journaling file system that in some not to rare cases fails to recover data properly. Ext3 is much more stable. Read this post by Theodore Ts'o ReiserFS is said to be faster (with small files anyway) but still the file systems work is to ensure that your data is secure and not lost during power outs and similair difficulties. There are some nice tweaks for Ext3 to make it faster discussed on the Gentoo forum. Gentoo forum discussion on Ext3 tweaking

[edit] Installation bugs

I have used this guide to make an Stage 1 + NPTL + Prelink installation on my Acer Travelmate 8104WLMi notebook. I had a lot of problems with dependency when doing "emerge --deep system" so i had to solve a great number of dependency errors by watching the emerge output of the package to figure it out what package i was missing.Unfortunaly i was in a hurry to finish this installation so i forgot to document it and i cannot tell you the exact packages i needed to emerge prior to "emerge --deep system" or the exact procedure. But i remember that every time i solved a dependency and did "emerge --deep system" it emerged all the packages again, from scratch! (I emerged gcc and libc 3 times in a afternoon). Thank god my notebook is a little faster and i realized in time. After that, every time i solved a dependency i did a "emerge -avt --update --deep world) and everything worked fine from this point (except for the dependencies). After "emerge --update --deep world" finished i emerged the other packages described in the "#Bootstrapping the System, Emerging System, Setting Runlevels - All One Command" section and went on with the guide skipping the Splash kernel stuff. I installed Xorg, KDE and configured my Radeon X700 with the new driver (8.32.5) and now my GLXgears is > 4500 FPS! I installed the "/" partition with ReiserFS as it has lots of small files and my "/home" partition with Ext3 with "largefile4" as i usually have bigger files. And it works great, very fast with Prelink specially with KDE startup. In the end i think that the Guide is great and complete, it just needs some small fixes and testing.

[edit] NPTL support in 2006.1

As of 2006.1, the default /etc/make.profile symlink points to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/<arch>/no-nptl NPTL WILL NOT COMPILE, PERIOD UNLESS YOU UPDATE YOUR /etc/make.profile SYMLINK!! Update symlink to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1 See: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml